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Comment on Contemporary Classical Music: The Emperor’s New Music? by adfcomposer https://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/the-emperor%e2%80%99s-new-music/#comment-20
Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:54:34 +0000http://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-20Thank you! As a matter of interest I am in my final semester of a BMus (Composition) degree and re-reading my blog after all those years, nothing has changed much in my thinking. If anything I am even more sure of my arguments now. Happy listening!
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Comment on Contemporary Classical Music: The Emperor’s New Music? by http://ficktreffen.weblogwriter.com https://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/the-emperor%e2%80%99s-new-music/#comment-19
Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:20:42 +0000http://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-19Remarkable! Its actually awesome article, I have got much clear idea regarding from this post.
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Comment on In Defence of Andre Rieu by Andrew DuFresne https://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/in-defence-of-andre-rieu/#comment-12
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:49:51 +0000http://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/?p=64#comment-12I didn’t realise he had a mullet.

There is nothing that can be said in defence of mullets.

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Comment on In Defence of Andre Rieu by The Riverboat Captain https://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/in-defence-of-andre-rieu/#comment-11
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:36:29 +0000http://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/?p=64#comment-11He could do with a decent haircut though. Mullets are so 80s.

And I don’t mean 1880s 🙂

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Comment on My Most Important Fan by adfcomposer https://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/my-most-important-fan/#comment-10
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:52:00 +0000http://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-10Hi Ros – that doesn’t surprise me. I have seen it too, both in my grandson (who now wants a drum kit!) and another young chap who won a NZ-wide schools composition competition at the age of (I think) 6.
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Comment on My Most Important Fan by Rosalind https://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/my-most-important-fan/#comment-9
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:30:38 +0000http://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-9Hi Andrew

How those little chidren show us the way with their
lives uncomplicated with just learning about life.
I have been introducing some young students with improvisation and it is the youngest 6year old who does it best.

Cheers
Ros

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Comment on Contemporary Classical Music: The Emperor’s New Music? (Part 2) by adfcomposer https://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-emperor%e2%80%99s-new-music-part-2/#comment-6
Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:48:31 +0000http://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-6Good comment Mark. Your remark about what musicians like to play as opposed to what people like to hear is one that I have heard anecdotally once or twice but never, as it were, from the horse’s mouth. You may also be interested in a blog at http://karldufresne.blogspot.com/2009/09/if-its-popular-it-must-be-bad.html.
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Comment on Contemporary Classical Music: The Emperor’s New Music? (Part 2) by Mark Thomson https://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-emperor%e2%80%99s-new-music-part-2/#comment-5
Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:39:34 +0000http://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-5Teh other thing I note about the composers listed is that their music is not only strong melodically bbut is chordally “simple”. Not in a negative sense but in a way that is intuitive to a western musical ear. Why is it that the “masses” remember and hum them. Bono got it about right – Three chords and the truth.
I wonder how much of a lot of the music that is readily forgotten by the most is written for a specific audience or the composer themselves. As a musician, I find the songs that get people singing the most (as is my usual reason for playing) are the stonrg or easily followed music. The music I enjoy playing the most is rhythmically complex with lots of chrodal colour – but people don’t sing well to it. Want to know what works, look at the music used for advertising!! All in my humble opinion!
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Comment on Contemporary Classical Music: The Emperor’s New Music? by Peter Carpenter https://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/the-emperor%e2%80%99s-new-music/#comment-4
Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:21:54 +0000http://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-4I agree wholeheatedly with your comments on “contemporary atonal, often experimental, music”.
It was a delight to hear your “Classical Romp” music for the first time – I await with great anticipation the orchestration of some of the other melodies that are “running around in your head”.
Well done Andrew!!
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Comment on Contemporary Classical Music: The Emperor’s New Music? (Part 2) by adfcomposer https://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-emperor%e2%80%99s-new-music-part-2/#comment-3
Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:52:14 +0000http://adfcomposer.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-3I completely agree but we are in very subjective territory here! However on a global scale I would be surprised if the numbers of CDs of any of those composers even approached those of the above-named, and that is the basis for my conclusions. It is a numbers game. There are about 4 works of Aaron Copland I am reasonably familiar with compared with literally dozens of Beethoven’s works, and this would be fairly typical of the regular concert-goer.
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